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After World War II, the Soviet Union invited all its emigres to come home and help rebuild the motherland. Most of them were instantly killed or sent to the Gulag, victims of Stalinist paranoia. This complex, heartbreaking film recounts the brutal struggle of one couple to survive. Oleg Menchikov plays a doctor, valuable to the state, who gets along by pretending to go along. Sandrine Bonnaire is his French-born wife, on whom the state visits its worst depredations. But East-West is more than their story; it is a great, gray epic of a society wasted and terrorized...
...that's different. In the postfeminist tabloid subconscious of America, fathers are problematic figures with bad track records--a certain smudge of anger and potential violence in them, untrustworthy, given to rotten behavior, if not now, then later. And, by association, this particular dad morphs vaguely into a bearded Stalinist dictator...
...been two years since I bought--and set aside--my first cell phone. The horrid device in question was a bottom-of-the-line Ericsson that looked as if it had been designed in Stalinist Russia. I got it free with a one-year service contract. Sadly, phone, service (AT&T Wireless) and contract conspired against me. Either the Ericsson, which carried a battery charge for a good half-hour or so, was out of juice or I was in one of the many dead spots that appeared to plague my mobile life. After three months of this, I stopped...
...Robert Lowell and Isaiah Berlin. And of course there is McCarthy's archenemy, Lillian Hellman. In a taped interview with Dick Cavett, first aired in 1980, McCarthy said, with only slight hyperbole, that "every word she writes is is a lie, including and and the." Hellman, the self-mythologizing Stalinist Blackglama legend, sued, but died before the matter came to trial...
...animals docile. And the filmmakers use ingenious images to dramatize how image control is essential to tyrants. When the hog Napoleon (voiced by Patrick Stewart) becomes absolute dictator, his apotheosis is celebrated by a martial chorus of foot-stomping ducks in a perfect and hilarious imitation of a Stalinist propaganda musical...